A social network for keeping Dewey's ideas alive in practice
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- Website:
- http://villageproject.org
- What particular Deweyan ideas are you most interested in?
- democracy, habit, growth, children, children, children
- What arenas of practice are you interested in working in?
- higher education, international issues, community renewal
- Say more about issues of practice that interest you.
- I teach at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, which prepares a large number of Wisconsin's teachers. Most of my students are pre-service teachers, nearly all undergraduates. Given how important it is to get Dewey's ideas into the schools -- in a genuine, Deweyan practice -- I'm interested in finding more ways to engage the teachers of the future with Dewey's ideas and Dewey's vision.
- What specific activites do you hope the John Dewey Society can undertake?
- I often find myself interested in specific topics or themes that I suspect Dewey has something to say about but I don't know where he says it. But I also suspect wiser, more experienced Dewey scholars know more about these themes -- e.g. Aristotelian ideas in Dewey, Dewey's influence on and influenced by other scholars he might have known (e.g. Franz Boas), Dewey as an urban thinker -- and I'd love this website to serve as a place to ask questions and get directions from others interested in Dewey's work.
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I stumbled upon this page by getting a note from AG Rud about Craig's post "Democracy is a Learning Theory."
It was great seeing you in Cambridge.
Len Waks